Children in Truong Sa
QĐND - Saturday, April 28, 2012, 20:28 (GMT+7)
Classes in Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands are becoming more crowded as more children are born here every year. After the class, children play games and read books under the blue sky.
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| In Truong Sa Lon (Big Truong Sa) Island, there are scores of children living and studying. |
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| Like children in the mainland, children in Truong Sa have a lot of toys and games. The children really love this house, considering it a ship where they can be captains and sailors. The children in Truong Sa respect each other as members of their family and their parents also consider all of the children as their own. |
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| Nguyen Ngoc Truong Xuan (left) was born in 2011 in an operation. Her name was given after the names of two doctors in this operation, Nguyen Ha Ngoc and Nguyen Xuan Lan. This was the first birth on the island. |
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| Dang Phuong Nam is going to celebrate his first birthday. He is among tens of children who were born on Truong Sa Island. |
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| The classes on the island are becoming more crowded. Tens of children study at different grades in the same classroom. The children love to wear naval uniforms to school. |
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| Besides learning school subjects, the children are also taught about Vietnam’s sovereignty over Truong Sa and Hoang Sa (Paracels). They are also taught to save fresh water by closing the water taps and wash in a tub to reuse the water to water the plants. |
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| After the class, the children can go home to read books. |
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| They can also go to visit the soldiers on the Island under the sun. The children said that they love the soldiers very much because they give them presents and teach them how to learn and sing. |
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| The children are also eager to receive guests from the mainland. Dang Bui Phuong Anh said that she got up very early in the morning to go to the quay with the soldiers to receive the guests. “I was very excited and could not sleep the night before the reception,” Phuong Anh smiled. |
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| The children regularly offer incenses to commemorate the martyrs who sacrificed their lives to protect the islands of Vietnam. |
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| Nguyen Anh Duc, a third-grade student, said that he wanted to become a naval soldier to protect Vietnam’s sovereignty. |
Source: VnExpress
Translated by Ngoc Hung